1 "Where
do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires
for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust
and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and
war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3
You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend
it on your pleasures. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know
that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore
wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who dwells
in us yearns jealously”? 6 But He gives more grace.
Therefore He says:
“ God resists the proud, But gives
grace to the humble.”